“Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson.”

Election night thoughts

You might have noticed that I’ve stayed quiet during the run up to the elections that were held today. Part of this is because I am still very busy with the paper I am writing (first draft is sitting on my adviser’s table). But the other reason is because I just don’t find them interesting. Pundits like to say that this is some referendum on Obama, but of course pundits say that, because it’s their job to make the trivial bullshit more important than it is. Like Yglesias points out, if you want to know what people think about Obama, instead of looking at the election between 3 people not named Obama in the 23rd district of New York, you could instead, you know, ask people what they think of Obama. Oh but wait, that answer has been clear for a long time: overall positive, not by as much as the early months of his presidency.